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"We should fight for a radical reduction of the working week." Inés Campillo Posa, Comillas Pontifical University Madrid, Spain. Image by Zoé Tabourdiot.
"We should fight for a radical reduction of the working week." Inés Campillo Posa, Comillas Pontifical University Madrid, Spain. Image by Zoé Tabourdiot.

Feminist Responses to Austerity in Europe

Mareike Post
Solidarity and emancipation
Report of a European Parliament lunch session | 25 April 2018Women are hit twice by austerity – as workers in sectors double affected by structural reforms and as social security recipients. This is demonstrated by case studies from ten European countries commissioned by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in 2017. Despite recent growth accelerations, the European economies do not live up to their promise of ending austerity. Poverty remains a daunting scenario for large parts of the population, aggravated by insecure and low-paid employment, shrinking social...
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Transforming our lives. Transforming the world.

digberlin
Solidarity and emancipation
3rd International Marxist-Feminist Conference 2018 – Call for participationThe Third International Marxist-Feminist Conference will take place at Lund University (Lund, Sweden), October 6-7, 2018. The format of the Conference In March 2015 over 500 scholars and activists participated in the first international Marxist-Feminist conference in Berlin exploring topics such as neoliberalism, intersectionality and social reproduction. The Second International Marxist-Feminist Conference took place in Vienna in 2016 under the title: Building Bridges ...
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Image: SP, Manifestatie voor thuiszorg / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Image: SP, Manifestatie voor thuiszorg / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Fights We Can Win

May Naomi Blank (transl. by Loren Balhorn)
Solidarity and emancipation
The Dutch Socialist Party’s Health Care InterventionDelivering his acceptance speech as the newly elected leader of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands (SP) towards the end of 2015, Ron Meyer informed his comrades they "have to do things differently. […] Not a little bit differently, but completely different." The former campaigner from the Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging (FNV) trade union federation had previously organised Dutch youth in a campaign to raise the minimum wage, and now his leadership would mark the beginning of a new, militant SP campaign for a public ...
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